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Since that the whole world and even my beloved country running out of rice/grains, especially the rice bowl state don’t have any more grains…. what is the use of rice cooker? Moreover, Linpeh recent post tell that rice cooker have no other use. Says who?

Here are some of the usage of the rice cooker:-

1. You can use it for steamboat. Just dump everything into the rice cooker, and the put water and leave it to cook. Once the stuff boiled and there you go. Have your own steamboat adi.

2. You can stir/fry/steam
–> as mentioned by Adam Kuban

The jist:
Roger Ebert makes non-rice things in his rice cooker: “You can live your entire life never cooking with anything but a rice cooker. In fact, I’ve been threatening to write the rice-cooker cookbook. There’s a warning on my machine that says, ‘Do not cook anything in this but rice.’ But there’s no reason for that warning. You can make stews, soups and pasta in it.”

So does chef David Bouley [behind TimesSelect pay wall; sorry!]: “The Japanese chefs also showed him how to make tiny one-dish meals inside the cooker. To illustrate, he seasoned rice with a bit of soy sauce, rice vinegar, mirin and tomato water and put it in a ceramic crock small enough to fit inside the pot. After about 20 minutes, he stirred in morsels of half-cooked lobster, diced raw asparagus, minced chervil and tarragon and a splash of sake. Then he steamed the dish for another five minutes. ‘High-end crock cooking,’ Mr. Bouley said dryly.”

3. Make char siew since Rojaks Fei Hai like it so much

oh, yes! my aunt gave me an incredible char-siu (bbq pork) recipe that’s made in the rice cooker - you marinate pork butt or shoulder with soy, garlic, shallots, hoisin, hou chee sauce etc. overnight, then plunk the whole mess into the cooker and wait for the button to pop up. sometimes i push it down a couple times just to get the pork all caramelized and the sauce nice and syrupy. delish with a bowl of steaming white rice.

i am trying to journey beyond the use in the kitchen area… coz every house need to have one.

btw, picture borrowed from mamakspecial

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